Last week, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen, who is paid to have opinions 'n' things, finally realized that slavery was really, really bad y'all, like even worse than taxes and stuff. This week? It is hard to explain without going into an actual seizure, like when you are playing Japanese video games, or whatever, you know, with the strobes and the epilepsy? Like that, but from disgust and sadness and stabbiness and suicidal ideation at the state of humanity and our world. Are you ready?
I had a job in 1976 that involved longterm planning in the NYC public schools. The pilot project schools were in Canarsie and Far Rockaway because demographically they were the most varied in the entire public-school system - racially, ethnically, economically.
So I guess Cohen has been feeling nauseous and puky since he was six. This explains his bile. It does not explain why WaPo publishes his crap.
"I should have edited that one sentence more carefully"
You mean the sentence "The GOP is not racist"? because there kind of is a lot of people who disagree with this basic premise, which Cohen just poops out like it was some kind of settled truth. "Conventional wisdom" if you will.
Oh, no, you must have meant to use more care on the sentence "By Richard Cohen" which probably should have read "By Handwaving Racist Apologist."
Rebecca: No matter how much it exactly and precisely describes Cohen, don't call him the "R-word"! You can get in trouble for that around here.
Gotta agree with Matthew Yglesias on this one (from Slate via Raw Story):
<blockquote>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m sure there&rsquo;s some market niche for columns denouncing miscegenation and race mixing, but is it really the Washington, D.C. market?&rdquo;</blockquote>
I believe the &quot;market niche&quot; he&#039;s looking for is usually known as &quot;Townhall readers&quot;.
I had a job in 1976 that involved longterm planning in the NYC public schools. The pilot project schools were in Canarsie and Far Rockaway because demographically they were the most varied in the entire public-school system - racially, ethnically, economically.
So I guess Cohen has been feeling nauseous and puky since he was six. This explains his bile. It does not explain why WaPo publishes his crap.
Prolly cuz you are.
Ha! Good point, I&#039;d forgotten all about that. Surely by now Clarence Thomas has had a chance to read this column.
Yeah, but she was gagging at the time.
+10 points for Firesign Theatre ref.
Apparently &quot;out through my bellybutton, because my head is WAAAAAY UP THERE&quot;
&quot;Should I mention that The WaPo&#039;s editorialist, Richard Cohen, used to be a human?&quot;
&quot;I should have edited that one sentence more carefully&quot;
You mean the sentence &quot;The GOP is not racist&quot;? because there kind of is a lot of people who disagree with this basic premise, which Cohen just poops out like it was some kind of settled truth. &quot;Conventional wisdom&quot; if you will.
Oh, no, you must have meant to use more care on the sentence &quot;By Richard Cohen&quot; which probably should have read &quot;By Handwaving Racist Apologist.&quot;
Yeah, that was pretty careless.
&quot;liberal&quot;, please. You&#039;re talking about Dickie Cohen.
Poor fella had to walk all the way to the back of the bus to have her arrested. Must have been exhausting for him.
Rebecca: No matter how much it exactly and precisely describes Cohen, don&#039;t call him the &quot;R-word&quot;! You can get in trouble for that around here.
The Jewish guy endorses racial purity?
ze plane! ze plane!
Gotta agree with Matthew Yglesias on this one (from Slate via Raw Story):
<blockquote>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m sure there&rsquo;s some market niche for columns denouncing miscegenation and race mixing, but is it really the Washington, D.C. market?&rdquo;</blockquote>
I believe the &quot;market niche&quot; he&#039;s looking for is usually known as &quot;Townhall readers&quot;.
Not even Jeff Foxworthy could disagree, although he might prefer the conditional mood.
Eugene Robinson on line two...